Profile of Doug Henschen

Doug Henschen is Executive Editor of InformationWeek, where he covers the intersection of enterprise applications with information management, business intelligence, big data and analytics. He previously served as editor in chief of Intelligent Enterprise, editor in chief of Transform Magazine, and Executive Editor at DM News. He has covered IT and data-driven marketing for more than 15 years.

11/30/2009
Companies used to employ armies of people to read through documents such as customer satisfaction surveys, but it took longer, cost a lot more money and yielded far less detailed, reliable and consistent information than you can now quickly uncover using text mining applications.
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11/18/2009
Companies used to employ armies of people to read through documents such as customer satisfaction surveys, but it took longer, cost a lot more money and yielded far less detailed, reliable and consistent information than you can now quickly uncover using text mining applications.
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11/17/2009
Complex event processing (CEP) is the next big thing in data integration. At least that's the game plan at Microsoft and Informatica. And given that IBM and Oracle also have CEP available on their technology toolbelts, there's little doubt that success will breed more adaptations of CEP for low-latency data integration.
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11/3/2009
Microsoft announced today a community technical preview (CTP) release of SQL Server 2008 R2 that includes in-memory analysis capabilities. It also announced a "Parallel Data Warehouse" edition of SQL Server set for the first half of next year. But the biggest surprise was the news that IBM is now a hardware partner...
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